as in descendent
a person born into a family and especially one that is rich, famous, or important
He's the scion of a billionaire family.
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She was born into the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, the product of a narcissistic mother, who was a scion of the Guinness-brewing fortune, and an Etonian father, who was killed in wartime Burma, when Blackwood was thirteen.
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Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
This April, the disgraced legal scion was sentenced to an additional 480 months, on top of his two life sentences, for conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, five counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of money laundering.
—Christina Coulter, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
Apple Martin was not the only Hollywood scion making their society debut at Le Bal des Débutantes in Paris over the weekend.
—Emma Bocchi, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
The combination of support for RFK Jr. and the MAGA paraphrase explain President-elect Donald Trump's choice of the political scion for secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Negar Azimi, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
This April, the disgraced legal scion was sentenced to an additional 480 months, on top of his two life sentences, for conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud, bank fraud, five counts of wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of money laundering.
—Christina Coulter, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
Apple Martin was not the only Hollywood scion making their society debut at Le Bal des Débutantes in Paris over the weekend.
—Emma Bocchi, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2024
The combination of support for RFK Jr. and the MAGA paraphrase explain President-elect Donald Trump's choice of the political scion for secretary of Health and Human Services.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Scion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scion. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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